WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls We’re part of a coalition called “Make Amazon Pay.” Black Friday is the annual action day. In India, where ACORN’s affiliate has been organizing and agitating around Amazon warehouses in East Delhi, we saddle up as part of the campaign in a big way. The “Make Amazon Pay” organizers say there …
New Orleans Another Black Friday has come and gone, or has it? Now, there’s Cyber-Monday, and every kind of small business seems to be jumping on the bandwagon at least pretending there’s a sale on offer. I even read some report about a woman who specialized in finding cheaper prices than Amazon on …
Manchester In the fog of jet lag and false expectations, it took me until the afternoon to fully grasp what the Make Amazon Pay campaign and this summit were about. It wasn’t about organizing really, although this was a union-based and funded effort. But they were all about organizing, in the sense of fully …